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In this chapter and the next, we discuss the consequences of work structures and their correlates: how they make a difference in explaining things that people care about. The dependent variables we consider selectively, and thus illustratively, are broad-ranging but prototypal areas of research in many subfields within sociology, economics, and related disciplines. The dependent variables include labor market outcomes such as income inequality, career paths, and mobility; and labor force outcomes such as work attitudes, unemployment, collective bargaining phenomena, labor force participation rates of different subsets of the population, and the distribution of skills.
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Greg J. Duncan, Years of Poverty, Years of Plenty: The Changing Economic Fortunes of American Workers and Families (Ann Arbor: Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan, 1984).
Ivar Berg, Education and Jobs: The Great Training Robbery (New York: Praeger, 1970).
Lester C. Thurow, Generating Inequality (New York: Basic Books, 1975).
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Kalleberg, A.L., Berg, I. (1987). Introduction to Chapters 4 and 5. In: Work and Industry. Springer Studies in Work and Industry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3520-5_5
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